Cool and windy, but sun should be out and it should warm up later. I’d be happy with a repeat of yesterday. I think I might bring some sun screen, just in case.
I got my Dr appointment done. Signage sucked, and I ended up being late, but I found it eventually. Started by heading to storage and loading up the pickup. One of the weirdest things I have is 9 spools of 12 gauge wire, 500ft. I bought it for about $20/roll, and it is up to $109. It is good for home-made antennas, as well as regular electrical wiring. Even if I discount it for a fast sale, I’ll make good money on it. I’ve got thousands of dollars of high end point to point 3.3ghz wireless networking too. IDK if anyone will have the deep pockets, maybe a club… but it sure would be nice to move a couple of them.
I added zelle to my phone so I could get paid for the bigger items. I’ve already got paypal, and the wife has venmo so I have some sort of way to receive that too.
I found almost everything. Somewhere, there are a couple of bins of motorola radios that I just couldn’t find. I found some just not the ones I was looking for. Oh well. Found some stuff I didn’t know I had too, so there is balance.
I REALLY REALLY don’t want to put all this stuff back away…
So come out to the Rosenburg Fairgrounds and check out the hamfest. $15 entry at the door, and there are door prizes. I’ll be in the parking lot swap meet area. If you have been paying attention, you should be able to figure me out.
Go out into the world and stack some stuff.
nick
45F! And saturated. Cold and damp. Joy. Maybe I’ll wear long pants after all.
Truck and trailer look unmolested, so there’s that.
Back is sore from all the lifting and toting yesterday. THAT wasn’t on the menu for today. Oh well, should loosen up as I move around.
Time to eat, caffeinate, and head out.
n
I’m considering using iTop VPN on my Windows laptop.
Any comments?
Looks like it might clear off for you and the hams, Nick.
Uh-huh
They’re pretty vague on details about protocol and what exactly gets installed on your system.
@SteveF
Wrong way to geld them if you want the problem to go away over time.
Or how about we extend the legal abortion window to 9 months after the first armed robbery?
Hint: larg-ish trailer towed by small-ish pickup with about a billion miles. 🙂
Large Sign: Motivated Seller–Make Offer
(Do not be cruel and ask if he has any more Motorola radios)
Oh, there are other ways…
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/2023-03-03/el-salvadors-new-mega-prison-gets-first-inmates
Tonymobiles and Jesus Trucks for everyone!
Seriously, $360k is not going to change a thing other than the fortunes of Tesla and the sneaker companies.
And Apple.
>> and standing on concrete.
This: https://www.costco.com/cushion-safe-lite-mat.product.100090514.html
I’m using Proton VPN. I like their email so much, I bought a premium package that includes the VPN.
I’ve used ExpressVPN and IP Vanish. Both had “kill switches” that failed on the Mac. No problem with Proton. All claim to be “logless”, but Proton is known for privacy.
>> I’m considering using iTop VPN on my Windows laptop.
Any comments?
Look at https://protonvpn.com/
Free and paid plans.
Dad and I went to see the new Ant Man movie in Victoria yesterday. Dad liked it better than I did. There were 10 of us in a 400 seat theater. We cant figure out how the Cinemark is staying open. Bill Murrey and Paul Rudd in the same movie.
“Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer (Part I)”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/02/reliable-vs-intermittent-generation-a-primer-part-i/
Yup, the unreliable wind turbines are killing our base load units on an economic basis. We cannot have reliable electric grids with this nonsense.
Movie theaters received some kind of bailout in one of the $1 Trillion plus packages.
The problem is that Disney/Marvel is out of gas.
After “Ant Man” faded against “Cocaine Bear”, “The Marvels” got pushed back to 2024 and “The Haunted Mansion” moved up to Summer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gartMjonTXc
Starring Rosario Dawson’s … assets. Geesh The Mouse is shameless as of late. Ironically, Kevin Smith did it better and made the scene seem less gratuitous while working for Harvey Weinstein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9OfrQnijM4
Intermittent generation could work if it were buffered somehow: feeding a pumped-storage hydro reservoir, maybe a giant bank of batteries, something like that. The solar panels or wind turbines aren’t connected directly to the grid. It’s like a hybrid car, which has the wheel motors powered by batteries and the engine charging the batteries.
But of course, grid-scale “renewable” energy is not cost-efficient even now and only “fun with numbers” can make it appear so. Needing to add a storage unit would make that lie even more difficult to maintain.
The garage queen Bronco down the street disappeared from the throne early this morning. Everybody is home, but the wife’s Cadillac SUV is currently in the space where the new vehicle usually reigns.
Ford had a stop shipment on all of the vehicles using the same 10 speed transmission last week for problems with the parking pawl going inoperative due to an assembly line defect.
Recall is for Nov 2022 to Jan 2023. So far.
@SteveF
Intermittent generation could work
if it were buffered somehowin third-world countries run by corrupt governments.FIFY
Note that we’re on our way.
Austin is already there. This incident took place at a major intersection near downtown, not far from Austin PD Headquarters.
https://nypost.com/2023/02/20/woke-city-policies-in-austin-texas-blamed-for-street-racing-chaos/
Now if only straws could vote…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-overwhelming-wins-cpacs-republican-primary-straw-poll-desantis-coming-distant-second
Prep, who us, nah, we can just run to Whole Foods…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11818671/Sheriff-warns-Californians-avoid-mountains-17-feet-snow-blankets-San-Bernardino.html
Dilbert: Romanian Jail
https://dilbert.com/strip/2023-03-04
Um, never ask Dogbert questions.
And http://www.dilbert.com is still up.
Home and counted up.
Grossed over $1100… no idea of the net at this point. So many of the things were purchases long ago. No big items sold, that was all on smalls. I feel like my average sale was $25…
Saw a lot of people, had some great conversations. Met two guys local to the BOL. Which is nuts.
Got too much sun. Forgot to put on the sunscreen or my hat. Did get the hat one when my neck felt crunchy.
Time to order a pizza and shower and crash. Long day in the sun. Couldn’t ask for better weather though.
n
>> Time to order a pizza and shower and crash.
What, no frozen pizza in the freezer ready to pop in the oven and enjoy hot? Or you prefer just warm from delivery?
Try the Trader Joe’s rectangular tomato and cheese pie for $5.99. Not bad for frozen.
Either way, enjoy the pizza…geez, now I’m hungry. Nite all.
I am down here sitting on the edge of the bay, to semi quote Otis Redding. Beautiful weather for early March. No ice, no tornadoes.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug
I was just reading a Reddit post about the Roma (can’t call them Gypsies anymore). Whoever posted it was hoping for sympathy, but instead they got a bunch of tales of Roma moving into an area, committing crimes, harrassing people – and then moving on, leaving the area trashed. Criticize them and “they’re just a poor, oppressed minority, stop being racist.”
Sort of like inner city blacks in the US. Some cultures are not worth preserving.
While SteveF’s ideas are always welcome, they tend to be impractical. But, honestly, it is a problem. What do you *do* with people who have little or no chance of ever becoming productive member of society? More prisons aren’t the answer – that’s just a different kind of drain on the host society.
I use “Private Internet Access” and I’m pretty happy with them. Of course, you have to trust that they do what they say, but PIA has a pretty good reputation.
Or, as Alan and Mr Atoz point out, Proton also has a good reputation.
A neighbor of mine is a total hydrogen fan. One of his points is that generating hydrogen is an ideal application for things like wind and solar, because you can throw excess generation into producing hydrogen, when and if you have it. Which lets your base load generators do their thing.
Depending on what you do with the hydrogen, it could become a useful storage medium, or you can sell it as fuel.
@brad:
We get that in UK, too, except that the “travellers” are mostly Irish tinkers, who do indeed commit crimes (mostly petty theft, such as pinching daily milk deliveries) and attempted scrap dealing – that which doesn’t sell at a profit is just dumped, for the local authorities to tidy up after the travellers move on.
And they’re not above trespassing on private land, either.
Haven’t seen any of that near me for years (No, Geoff, don’t say that, or you will see it) but it’s still happening across the country.
G.